"[...] Beyond beying somewhat chaotic, somewhat poisonous, the actual city continues to exist today as a transparent 'landscape', enduring without a single scratch. Then at night the city wipes clean all impurities, acquiring a nearly flawless kind of beauty. It becomes an impregnable fortress, lacking even a single weakness. However, it is exactly because of its unassainability that I must set this 'landscape' confronting me aflame with my own hands. [...] A day will come when a single crack will nick this 'landscape' [...]

Rebellion Against the Landscape: Fire at the limits of my Perpetual Gazing. Takuma Nakahira.

(Supplement to the 2010 edition of "A Language to Come" a photobook by Takuma Nakahira first published in 1970, Tokyo)

Democracy is supposed to provide a mechanism for making collective decisions that serve the best interests of the community. It is meant to achieve the same objective for collective decision making as the market mechanism does for individual decision making. Citizens elect representatives who gather in assemblies to make collective decisions by voting. This is the principle of representative democracy. It presupposes a certain kind of relationship between the citizens and their representatives. The candidates stand up and tell the citizens what they stand for, and the citizens then choose the person whose ideas are the closest to their own.

42nd Street–Bryant Park is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway at Bryant Park in Manhattan. It has four tracks and two island platforms. A mezzanine originally extended south from 42nd Street to the 34th Street station, with additional entrances at 38th Street. The passageway was long, dim, and lightly-traveled. It was closed in the mid-1980s after a murder took place there. It is now used for storage.

[p]_mall_comercial

[p]_about|ph[f]otos

relações|co[lo]r|relationspensar a cor de uma relação através de uma série de imagens de timor-leste, austrália e porto | to think about the color of a relationship through a series of photographs of east-timor, australia and porto

legendas|captionsuma série de imagens de amsterdão usadas para reflectir sobre o poder das legendas na fotografia | a series of amsterdam images are used to reflect about the power of captions

[g]_down under

antit[o]urism[o]sensações imediatas do país lá down-under
(ou talvez um ensaio sobre a impossibilidade social de viajar) | imediate sensations from down-under (or maybe a report about the social impossibility of travelling)